Aid struggles to reach quake-hit Syria

The U.S. government has called on all parties in Syria to immediately grant humanitarian access to those in need, in the aftermath of devastating earthquakes that have killed thousands of people


APPROXIMATE AREAS OF CONTROL IN SYRIA
Syrian government 
Kurdish-led forces
Syrian rebels and jihadist forces
Turkey-backed Syrian rebels and Turkish military


TURKEY 
SYRIA


First earthquake (7.8 magnitude)

Mersin
Osmaniye 
Ceyhan
Adana
Iskenderun 
Antakya
Mediterranean Sea
Latakia

TURKEY
31,600+ dead

Elbistan
Goksun
Golbasi
Kahramanmaras 
Gaziantep
Kilis
Aleppo
Bab al-Hawa crossing
Idlib
Elazig
Malatya
Affected area
Adiyaman 
Sanliurfa
Raqqa

SYRIA
5,700+ dead

100km 60 miles

Bulk of Syria’s deaths are in northwest, in territory largely held by Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) 


Sources: BBC, Reuters
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